In Sweden an reconnected to the world

After the usually long journey, this time even longer due to a boat trailer transport, we arrived in Mossen, Sweden, on Tuesday afternoon only to realize that our telephone had been cut off for the third year in a row by some digging power company workers. The damage had been reported by our neighbor to "Telia", the telephone operator, already by last week Thursday. Yesterday, after only 8 days, they were finally able to repair it somehow, although it looks very temporary, as the pictures show. That's what one calls a very poor service, especially in the "Homeland of Telecommunication".

New Boat, Crescent Salmon V23

The Ryds 600c is sold and a new boat is coming into service in week 16. It is a Crescent Salmon V23, which will be fully equipped with a Yamaha 150 hp Outboard, Scotty El-Downrigger, Raymarine Autopilot, Lowrance Plotter, Sonar, Radar and NASA AIS-Radar. I hope that the fishing will be as good with the new rigg as it was with the old one!

Big Salmon Catcher Vaenern

Storfiskare av Insjölax Vänern

Tabellen visar dom fiskare som fångat 2 eller fler Insjölaxar i
Vänern över 10 kilo. 10 poäng / fisk och kilo.
Nr.. Poäng.. Antal 10+. Vikt........... Fiskare
1 ….. 488 ….. 4 …..….. 44,76 …..….. Conny Björk
2 ….. 478 ….. 4 …..….. 43,83 …..….. Jonas Björk
3 ….. 457 ….. 4 …..….. 41,72 …..….. Fredrik Nilsson
4 ….. 365 ….. 3 …..….. 33,47 …..….. Kennet Ljung
5 ….. 335 ….. 3 …..….. 30,50 …..….. Daniel Kedestig
6 ….. 238 ….. 2 …..….. 21,82 …..….. Per Wegelius
7 ….. 237 ….. 2 …..….. 21,70 …..….. Björn Bjölgerud
8 ….. 237 ….. 2 …..….. 21,65 …..….. Pierre Hallin
9 ….. 234 ….. 2 …..….. 21,35 …..….. Martin Gaertner
10 …. 233 ….. 2 …..….. 21,34 …..….. Leif "Laffen" Madsen
11 …. 233 ….. 2 …..….. 21,30 …..….. Robert Fuhr Kumla
12 …. 232 ….. 2 …..….. 21,16 …..….. John Karlsson
13 …. 227 ….. 2 …..….. 20,69 …..….. Pär Larsson
14 …. 223 ….. 2 …..….. 20,30 …..….. Patrik Wallgren
15 …. 222 ….. 2 …..….. 20,23 …..….. Jussi Heikkinen

From http://risbergsblogg.blogspot.com/

Team "Abu-Trolling" is recording big fish catches on the Swedish Great Lakes!

Season over

This years fishing season is concluded. The last 2 days were without a fish. The boat will be out of the water tomorrow and were going back to Germany on Monday.
Complete I caught 16 fish, total weight 92 kg. But apart from the 10+ on Vänern, the fishing was below average. Remarkable is that the biggest fish was from Vänern, were the average weight of the salmon is half of them in the Baltic sea.

Empty water

Todays trip gave only 1 small salmon. The Swedish waters looking to be empty, so a change in the tactic will be needed tomorrow.

2nd Bornholm trip

The 2nd Bornholm trip gave 1 salmon of 6 kg. The last 3 days will be fished in Swedish waters.

Bornholm trip

As the Swedish waters were not productive the last days I decided to go to danish waters near Bornholm. The result, 1 Salmon of 3.5kg and a Seatrout of 6.5 kg. Tomorrow will be the same destination as there were some big fish caught today.

The weather does it again

A new high pressure area with a lot of sun and no wind is messing up the fishing again. It will be tough to get something in the next days. Today was zero again.

No fish

No wind at all, a lot of sun and to many boats on my favorite spot resulted in no fish today.

Nice day on the water

After a windy and foggy morning the weather changed to almost perfect. I had 2 strikes, which resulted in 1 salmon of 8.5 kg and and an empty hook. The first big fish are coming in, so hopefully there will be soon a big fish day in Simrishamn.

2nd day, 2 fish

The second day was even better than the first. I caught 2 salmon, 7.7 and 7.0 kg. The weather looks good and the fish are coming.

First Day Simrishamn

We arrived yesterday afternoon in Simrishamn and were greeted by a strong and cold eastern wind and only 5 degrees centigrade. We put the boat in the water and moved into our rented house. Today I went out late, because of the bad weather forecast, which was once more wrong. I started fishing at 12.00 o'clock and got one salmon at 3.00 PM. The fish was 8.5 kg. Not bad for the first day as the fishing was not good in the last week.